Piketon cleanup effort recycles tons of metal

Work keeps more than 4 million pounds out of landfills

4:54 AM,
May 12, 2013

Fluor-B&W worked with two regional companies and local law enforcement to arrange transportation of 10 massive synchronous condensers, some weighing more than 200 tons, as part of an asset recovery effort moving materials from the site.

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The U.S. Department of Energy and contractor Fluor-B&W Portsmouth recently recycled of millions of pounds of metal from the demolition of a de-energized electrical switchyard that served the former gaseous diffusion plant near Piketon.

The effort diverted more than 4 million pounds of steel, aluminum and copper from landfills and avoided costs of $7 million.

"This is the latest success in a long line of recycling efforts to reduce the environmental footprint from the Portsmouth site," said Vince Adams, DOE Portsmouth site director. "Reduce, reuse and recycle are the three R's of ...